People really should stop using the 'stock market' as a barometer for a countries economic health.

Maybe in the past it was a good tool, but with hedge markets and flash trading, it is all pretty much blind speculation.

Quoting: Anonymous Coward 21956579

I think most of us agree on that "here" and from what I hear, most people with half a brain believe that in the US and Europe as well. The problem is The Fed appears to be operating this way because of:

1) a bad financial market and economy (this was a financial crash not a purely economic one, so the fed should be questioned more then the economy)2) the fed appears to be perhaps playing politics with this new, useless qe3 focused on old, re-written mortgages that are the root of the problem in the first place - keep things afloat until after the elections.